By Brett Gillin Daniel Rodriguez’s journey to becoming a Division I college football player has been a unique one. Rather than toiling through the years of high school football and hoping to make a team upon graduation, Rodriguez decided he…
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20% of ISIS’s ammunition is from U.S.
According to a weapons-tracking organization called Conflict Armament Research, ISIS jihadi fighters have been using ammunition from 21 countries, including the United States. NBC News reported the organization worked with Kurdish forces to recover more than 1,700 cartridges used by…
Army Vet lobs first pitch like a grenade
Army Vet Throws 1st Pitch Like Grenade before NLDS | Military.com WASHINGTON — An Army veteran wounded in Iraq made a unique ceremonial first pitch before Game 2 of the NL Division Series, crawling toward the mound and then lobbing…
Painter honors veterans with “Freedom Rocks”
By Brett Gillin Ray “Bubba” Sorensen has picked an interesting medium for his tributes to our veterans. Sorensen knew he wanted to give something back to those that give everything for their country, and he decided that using his painting…
ISIS claims ex-Army Ranger captive is next to be executed
The parents of a former Army Ranger threatened with beheading by the Islamic State militant group released a letter written by their son earlier this year in which he said he was afraid to die, but was at peace with…
Typhoon washes away 3 U.S. Airmen
TOKYO – A powerful typhoon made landfall in central Japan this morning after washing three American airmen in Okinawa out to sea the previous day, killing at least one. Elsewhere in the Pacific, a separate typhoon whipped the Mariana Islands, including…
